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Read-alikes: The 2017 Printz Winners.

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No doubt the next 50 years of YA books will be partly shaped by the Michael L. Printz Awards, administered by ALA’s Young Adult Library Services Association (YALSA) and sponsored by Booklist. This year, the top prize goes to John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, and Nate Powell’s March: Book Three, while Honor Book status goes to Louise O’Neill’s Asking for It, Julie Berry’s The Passion of Dolssa, Neal Shusterman’s Scythe, and Nicola Yoon’s The Sun Is Also a Star. More teen readers will be finding these three outstanding novels; here’s how to extend their reading with similar titles.

Coates infuses his update of this classic Marvel superhero with a strong sense of political philosophy, which echoes contemporary concerns about racial justice that are the continuation of the fight at the heart of March, Book Three. Though solidly in the realm of superhero-adventure story, this has real-world resonance.

The inequality Lewis and his compatriots fought against during the civil rights movement took root early in America, and Davis’ trenchant, illuminating account of four slaveholding U.S. presidents pulls back the curtain on how deeply racism is embedded in American culture and the reverberating effects still felt today.

Though Lowery describes some of the same events covered in March, Book Three, her experience as a teenager in the civil rights movement will be particularly inspiring for teen readers, who might be spurred on by reading about someone their own age participating in civil action.

After disturbing photos of beautiful, popular Emma being drugged and raped are posted online, she presses charges, but she’s the one who becomes the object of scorn and vitriol.

Read-alikes:

All the Rage. By Courtney Summers. 2015. St. Martin’s/Griffin, $18.99 (9781250021915). Gr. 10–12.

Like Emma, Summers’ protagonist, Romy, becomes a pariah in her small town after she accuses a classmate of rape. But Summers homes in on Romy’s simmering anger at both her own treatment and rape culture in general, which comes to a head when her rapist attacks another girl.

Johnston’s loose retelling of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale is also a rape story, but unlike Emma, Hermione has a solid network of adults and friends to rely on. Her experience is no less harrowing, but the contrast between these novels emphasizes how critical support can be for victims of rape.

When Iris befriends an unwelcome newcomer to her town, her neighbors start gossiping and her family starts to crumble. Flood’s novel is a study in the taut, sometimes toxic dynamics of small towns, echoing the competitive, snide atmosphere of Emma’s community, particularly after the townsfolk turn against her.

Whereas Berry’s novel suggests true divine intervention, in Laird’s story, about a girl and her grandmother accused of witchcraft in seventeenth-century Scotland, there are no otherworldly influences. And yet, the upshot is the same: frenzied believers targeting innocent people and inciting all-too-human mob mentality.

Hoffman’s novel of a secret community of Jews at the turn of the sixteenth century in Spain touches on many of the same things as Berry’s book: the Inquisition and religious persecution, secretive religions, rich historical context, and young women at the center of key moments in history.

When Quinn discovers she’s pregnant, despite never having had sex, rumors start spreading that she’s carrying the second coming of Christ, and followers congregate on her Brooklyn stoop. Baer’s thought-provoking, magic-realist novel examines doctrinaire religious fervor, faith, and free will in a contemporary setting.

In a future world, where most teens contract a life-ending virus, Noah is quarantined at a special school that offers education and enrichment, despite its students’ truncated life expectancy. The messy struggle to thrive when survival is impossible is an evocative complement to Scythe.

Although Kraus’ vainglorious narrator dies, he certainly doesn’t stop living, and as he experiences historic moments firsthand, as a slowly rotting corpse, he takes on such big questions as the meaning of life, the purpose of death, and good versus evil.

As in Shusterman’s novel, Ishiguro’s story involves a world where death is uncommon. His protagonists, clones raised to be organ donors, have much shorter, prescribed lifespans, but as their destinies approach, they ponder the same sort of questions as those explored in Scythe.

Like Natasha and Daniel, Aristotle and Dante struggle with the weight of their parents’ expectations and undue responsibility. Ari and Dante’s relationship unfolds over a longer period and with more obstacles, but it’s no less empowering than Natasha and Daniel’s.

The touching relationship that grows between beleaguered Eleanor and half-Korean Park as they share comics and music in the back of the school bus shares many elements of Yoon’s novel—alternating voices, swoonworthy romance, and poignant conversations about identity.

Although romance isn’t at the forefront of Colbert’s novel, Suzette’s relationship with Emil is steamy, and her struggle to reconcile her responsibility to her brother, Lion, with her personal desire recalls Natasha’s reluctance to get swept up with Daniel while she strives to protect her family from deportation.